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Fair Circularity Principles (Shift)
Are you using plastic packaging...
March 17, 2023
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Climate crisis
Human rights due diligence
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Voice, stakeholders and defenders
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Biodiversity risk and directors’ duties (CCLI)
Life as we know it depends on...
March 17, 2023
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Just transition
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Embedding gender into HRDD under the upcoming EU CSDDD
‘Hidden’ impacts on women...
March 17, 2023
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The state of democracy in the world (Freedom House)
Democracy is on the decline...
March 10, 2023
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2022 Global CO2 Emissions (IEA)
Global CO2 emissions are at an all time high in 2022...
March 10, 2023
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CFOs: How you can address the “S” in “ESG” (WBCSD and Shift)
CFOs, if you haven’t been paying attention...
March 10, 2023
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Just transition
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The UNGPs and Climate Action (Shift)
Vulnerability play a central role in the context of climate change...
March 3, 2023
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Just transition
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Assessing the integrity of corporate climate strategies (Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor)
Is your company prepared for the increased scrutiny on climate strategies...
March 3, 2023
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Corporate inaction on majority-supported ESG proposals (PRI)
Investors have a crucial role to play...
March 3, 2023
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What makes a credible climate transition plan? (CDP)
Is your company ready with a credible climate transition plan...
February 24, 2023
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Climate crisis
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Transformation
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Companies and investors: no more waiting around to eliminate commodity-linked deforestation in your business and supply chains (Global Canopy)
Ending deforestation and land conversion are fundamental to...
February 24, 2023
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Biodiversity
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Applying HRDD to the downstream value chain (GBI, DIHR)
Yes, human rights due diligence (HRDD) expectations apply to the full value chain...
February 24, 2023
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Global perceptions of corruption remain stagnant (Transparency International)
The scale of corruption is huge...
February 13, 2023
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Applying a gender lens to climate investing
Integrate a gender lens into climate investments...
February 13, 2023
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Amended Directive calls for stronger platform worker protections (European Parliament)
If your company is relying on platform-based workers...
February 13, 2023
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Four components of just transition (Wilton Park - IHRB Just Transitions Dialogue)
The report underscores the importance of the UN Guiding Principles...
February 3, 2023
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Climate crisis
Just transition
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2022 shareholder voting trends (ShareAction)
Investors: can you push for more doing and less saying...
February 3, 2023
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Just transition
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Success factors for effective DEI
Creating lasting, meaningful initiatives...
February 3, 2023
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Gender and discrimination
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Inequality and taxation of the rich (Oxfam)
Money makes the world go round...
January 20, 2023
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Role of investors in biodiversity crisis
We are in a biodiversity crisis...
January 20, 2023
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ILO World Employment and Social Outlooks Trends 2023
The significant challenges global labour markets face...
January 20, 2023
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Just transition
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The state of human rights over the last year (HRW)
The inter-connections between human rights and climate...
January 13, 2023
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Climate crisis
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Just transition
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Top global risks for the decade (WEF)
The top ten greatest risks for the next decade span...
January 13, 2023
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Biodiversity
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Just transition
Transformation
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Artificial Intelligence governance and human rights
The very innovation that drives AI also poses serious risks to human rights...
January 13, 2023
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Leadership and governance
Transformation
Transparency
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COP15 on biodiversity - Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework 2022
Companies - stand ready for significantly more focus on biodiversity...
January 6, 2023
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Biodiversity
Climate crisis
Deforestation
Just transition
Water
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Due diligence and the full value chain
Companies should prioritise and take action on their most severe risks and impacts...
January 6, 2023
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Climate and human rights court cases
Companies - watch out for the court case connecting climate and human rights...
January 6, 2023
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Climate crisis
Just transition
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Top ten business and human rights influencers in 2023
If you’re a corporate service provider, a strategic advisor, an investor or a business consultant...
December 20, 2022
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Human rights due diligence
Leadership and governance
Transformation
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A sunnier renewable energy forecast
Market forces could be the boost we need to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050...
December 20, 2022
Energy and Mining
Climate crisis
Just transition
Transformation
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Investors need good data to manage human rights risks
A series of different drivers are leading more and more investors to seek data on companies'...
December 20, 2022
Financial
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Human rights due diligence
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Companies assessed on their impact on nature (WBA)
More and more companies are demonstrating attention, effort and action on the ...
December 9, 2022
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Biodiversity
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Freshwater loss and climate change
Climate change and freshwater loss are closely linked topics. Mitigating one ...
December 9, 2022
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Water
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Smallholder famers and segmentation
Companies in the agricultural sector are increasingly seeing that “farmers must ...
December 9, 2022
Agriculture
Human rights due diligence
Just transition
Voice, stakeholders and defenders
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The 11th session of the UN Annual Forum on Business and Human Rights 2022: What just happened?
The 11th session of the UN Annual Forum on Business and Human Rights took place this week in ...
December 2, 2022
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Human rights due diligence
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The Council of the European Union and the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive
Last week, Lara Wolters, the Rapporteur on the EU Parliament’s Committee of Legal Affairs, ...
December 2, 2022
Laws and litigation
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ILO's Global Wage Report 2022
The evidence indicates that, for the first time in the twenty-first century, real wage ...
December 2, 2022
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Gender and discrimination
Living-wage and Living-income
Voice, stakeholders and defenders
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Addressing climate loss and damage holistically
The Glasgow Climate Pact that emerged from COP26 urged “nongovernmental organisations and ...
December 2, 2022
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Climate crisis
Just transition
Leadership and governance
Transformation
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Rights Holders at the Centre: New Frontiers in Access to Remedies (UN Annual Forum 2022)
I just had the pleasure of moderating an insightful and rich discussion for the first session of ...
November 28, 2022
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Voice, stakeholders and defenders
Grievance mechanisms and access to remedy
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European Parliament, Lara Wolters and the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive
Now we’re talking UNGPs soft law and hard law inter-connections...
November 25, 2022
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Laws and litigation
Human rights due diligence
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EU Board Gender Quotas
Boards will need 40% women non-executive board members...
November 25, 2022
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Gender and discrimination
Laws and litigation
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CSRD, EFRAG and sustainability disclosure
Companies will no longer be able to rely...
November 25, 2022
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Laws and litigation
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COP27: What happened?
The COP27 talks have concluded, and we have our COP27 agreement. Let’s run you ...
November 22, 2022
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A roadmap to prevent greenwashing
Not all net zero pledges are created equal. As attention on private sector entities’ record on ...
November 22, 2022
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Just transition and governments
Many governments are beginning to reference just transition in their ...
November 22, 2022
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Children and the climate crisis
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Vanessa Nakate’s words say it all: “As hot as ...
November 22, 2022
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1.5°C and COP27
We cannot let go of 1.5°C: any rise above will have hugely significant climate change impact...
November 11, 2022
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Climate crisis
Leadership and governance
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Non-state actors and global climate yearbook
What we need now is radical cooperation...
November 11, 2022
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Climate crisis
Leadership and governance
Voice, stakeholders and defenders
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Recommendations from UN’s High-Level Expert Group on the Net Zero Emissions Commitments of Non-State Entities
Non-state actors, including businesses and financial institutions, are essential...
November 11, 2022
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Climate crisis
Just transition
Leadership and governance
Transparency
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The status of system-wide transformations in 2022
We need to pull out every tool in our toolbox and create new ones...
November 4, 2022
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Climate crisis
Leadership and governance
Transformation
Summary
Making transition plans just in the financial sector
Financial institutions have a key role to play not only in...
November 4, 2022
Financial
Climate crisis
Human rights due diligence
Just transition
Leadership and governance
Transparency
Summary
Industry associations, advocacy, biodiversity and climate change
Many companies are taking action...they may be missing the boat...
November 4, 2022
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Biodiversity
Climate crisis
Just transition
Leadership and governance
Transparency
Summary
Land equality: the linchpin to tackling climate change
Let’s place land equality at the core of company actions...
October 28, 2022
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Biodiversity
Climate crisis
Deforestation
Human rights due diligence
Just transition
Summary
Investors, human rights and just transition
Investors in the renewable energy sector occupy a key position...
October 28, 2022
Financial
Climate crisis
Human rights due diligence
Just transition
Leadership and governance
Transparency
Summary
Maritime sector and human rights
Much of our global economy relies on the maritime sector...
October 28, 2022
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Gender and discrimination
Grievance mechanisms and access to remedy
Health and wellbeing
Human rights due diligence
Living-wage and Living-income
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Why climate justice matters for companies
Companies need to apply a climate justice lens... for their own benefit...
October 21, 2022
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Climate crisis
Human rights due diligence
Just transition
Leadership and governance
Transformation
Summary
Net-zero transformation for business
“Whole-system” transformation to net-zero requires companies to think differently...
October 21, 2022
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Climate crisis
Leadership and governance
Transformation
Summary
A bumpy road to net-zero for the transport sector
The transport sector has a crucial role to play in meeting global net-zero emissions targets...
October 21, 2022
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Climate crisis
Human rights due diligence
Just transition
Leadership and governance
Transformation
Summary
WWF Findings on Biodiversity
A decrease of 69% of wildlife populations in the past 50 years ... WWF rings the alarm bell ...
October 14, 2022
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Biodiversity
Climate crisis
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EU Import Ban: Worker-focused recommendations
Prohibiting products made with forced labour - good in principle, but ...
October 14, 2022
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Human rights due diligence
Transparency
Laws and litigation
Modern slavery
Summary
CSR Europe and just transition
Calling all stakeholders to be part of a European Green Social Deal ...
October 14, 2022
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Just transition
Summary
200 land and environmental defenders murdered in 2021
In its tenth year of cataloguing attacks and violence against land and environmental defenders...
October 7, 2022
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Biodiversity
Deforestation
Human rights due diligence
Voice, stakeholders and defenders
Water
Summary
Just transitions - international rules based on local realities
We all have a general sense of what just transition entails. But what does...
October 7, 2022
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Climate crisis
Just transition
Transformation
Summary
“Good news: Your job is a climate job!”
Feeling like your 9-to-5 couldn’t be farther from action on climate change, sustainability and ...
October 7, 2022
All
Climate crisis
Insight
What does mental health have to do with companies?
In short, this is a time to talk about mental health – so let’s talk about it...
October 7, 2022
All
Health and wellbeing
Summary
Guidelines for mental health in the workplace
Mental health in the workplace has taken a beating over the last several years, in light of ...
September 30, 2022
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Bridging gaps in smallholder inclusion efforts
Market inclusion efforts are meant to help smallholder farmers from developing countries ...
September 30, 2022
Agriculture
Climate crisis
Gender and discrimination
Health and wellbeing
Living-wage and Living-income
Transformation
Summary
Sustainability transformation
It is now time for bold choices and urgent action that can change systems to create a better ...
September 30, 2022
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Between COP26 and COP27: Some insights from Climate Week NYC 2022
What a week! Maddie has been in New York covering New York Climate Action Week – there have been ...
September 23, 2022
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Climate crisis
Deforestation
Just transition
Biodiversity
Water
Summary
Proposal for an EU forced labour trade ban
Forced labour import bans are in the air these days. The release of the European Commission’s ...
September 16, 2022
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Child labour
Human rights due diligence
Laws and litigation
Modern slavery
Summary
Parliament Amendments to EU Deforestation proposal
The European Parliament is taking deliberate steps to ensure that human rights are incorporated ...
September 16, 2022
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Biodiversity
Climate crisis
Deforestation
Laws and litigation
Summary
2022 global estimates of modern slavery
Some bad news: We’re not seeing improvement in the global prevalence of forced labour. Over the ....
September 16, 2022
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Child labour
Gender and discrimination
Human rights due diligence
Modern slavery
Voice, stakeholders and defenders
Summary
Just transition and companies
The UN Global Compact, and the Think Lab on Just Transition it is hosting, has just released ...
September 9, 2022
All
Just transition
Leadership and governance
Summary
Recommendations to States on mitigation actions, loss and damage, and climate rights defenders
Ian Fry, the first Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights in the ...
September 9, 2022
All
Climate crisis
Voice, stakeholders and defenders
Summary
Xinjiang, crimes against humanity and companies
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has released its report on the ...
September 9, 2022
All
Human rights due diligence
Modern slavery
Summary
Boards and the climate transition
Being a Board director today looks very different to being a director ten years ago. And this ...
August 5, 2022
All
Climate crisis
Just transition
Leadership and governance
Summary
Advocating for climate policy
The private sector has a responsibility and a strategic opportunity to publicly advocate for ...
August 5, 2022
All
Climate crisis
Just transition
Leadership and governance
Transformation
Transparency
Summary
Investors and fundamental labour rights
August 5, 2022
Financial
Human rights due diligence
Leadership and governance
Living-wage and Living-income
Modern slavery
Voice, stakeholders and defenders
Summary
The human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment
A new right for a new era. Everyone, everywhere, has a human right to live in a clean, healthy ...
July 29, 2022
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Climate crisis
Just transition
Water
Biodiversity
Laws and litigation
Summary
Boards and the net zero transition
Companies need to rise to the challenge to meet the net zero transition - a challenge which can ...
July 29, 2022
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Climate crisis
Leadership and governance
Summary
Climate change and gender equality
“Women and other underserved groups are disproportionately impacted by the global climate crisis ...
July 29, 2022
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Climate crisis
Gender and discrimination
Leadership and governance
Summary
Litigation on climate and human rights
Two historic court decisions (in the UK and Brazil) and several ongoing cases at the European ...
July 22, 2022
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Climate crisis
Just transition
Laws and litigation
Summary
Business and inequality
Inequality—within communities, within countries and across borders—is growing and is becoming ...
July 22, 2022
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Climate crisis
Leadership and governance
Just transition
Living-wage and Living-income
Transformation
Summary
Deforestation and Net Zero
Companies in the forestry, land-use and agricultural (FLAG) sectors contribute significantly to ...
July 22, 2022
Agriculture
Climate crisis
Deforestation
Just transition
Summary
Future of operational-level grievance mechanisms
The UNGPs set out that effective operational-level grievance mechanisms (OGMs) should be based ...
July 15, 2022
All
Grievance mechanisms and access to remedy
Voice, stakeholders and defenders
Summary
OECD National Contact Points (NCPs)
OECD National Contact Points (NCPs) serve as fora for mediation and conciliation between ...
July 15, 2022
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Grievance mechanisms and access to remedy
Human rights due diligence
Voice, stakeholders and defenders
Summary
Investors and the decent work agenda
Investors have been scaling up their interest in labour rights issues, like health and safety, ...
July 15, 2022
Financial
Health and wellbeing
Living-wage and Living-income
Modern slavery
Transparency
Voice, stakeholders and defenders
Summary
The state of workers’ rights
According to the ITUC, the ten worst countries in the world for workers’ rights in 2022 are ...
July 8, 2022
All
Modern slavery
Voice, stakeholders and defenders
Summary
Growth of climate-related litigation
Courts continue to serve as an important battleground for action on climate change, with a ...
July 8, 2022
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Climate crisis
Just transition
Laws and litigation
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HREDD legislation to address humans’ environmental rights
UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment, David R. Boyd, and international ...
July 8, 2022
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Climate crisis
Deforestation
Human rights due diligence
Just transition
Laws and litigation
Insight
Between COP26 and COP27: Some insights from London Climate Action Week
I leave London Climate Action Week both terrified and re-energised, in equal measure. We have so ...
July 5, 2022
Energy and Mining
Climate crisis
Summary
Human rights and carbon credits
Carbon offsetting is an element of many companies’ and financial institutions’ net-zero ...
June 24, 2022
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Mining projects for the energy transition
The rush for energy transition minerals and metals is spurring many countries to “fast-track” ...
June 24, 2022
Energy and Mining
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Heightened human rights due diligence in conflict-affected contexts
We know that the UN Guiding Principles (UNGPs) expect companies worldwide to conduct human ...
June 24, 2022
No items found.
Summary
The EU’s Forced labour trade ban
What happens in the U.S. does not stay in the U.S… unless it’s forced labour. A trade ban on ...
June 17, 2022
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Modern slavery
Laws and litigation
Summary
Company practices on climate justice
A growing number of companies are integrating climate justice into their sustainability ...
June 17, 2022
All
Climate crisis
Just transition
Voice, stakeholders and defenders
Summary
Company emissions reduction targets and RECs
Lots of companies rely on power purchase agreements (PPAs) and renewable energy certificates ...
June 17, 2022
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Climate crisis
Just transition
Leadership and governance
Summary
The European Commission’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive
The European Commission’s proposed environmental and human rights due diligence duty obviously ...
June 10, 2022
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Human rights due diligence
Voice, stakeholders and defenders
Summary
Company financial investments as a major source of carbonisation
Companies are making ambitious and large-scale investments to reduce their contributions to ...
June 10, 2022
All
Climate crisis
Summary
Heightened due diligence by companies in the Russia-Ukraine conflict
The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 kick-started a challenging period of reckoning ...
June 10, 2022
All
Human rights due diligence
Summary
Role of investments and policy in a changing planetary reality
We are living in a new planetary reality, one in which the climate system is destabilized and ...
June 3, 2022
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Climate crisis
Biodiversity
Leadership and governance